Irish Book Awards あいりっしゅ・ぶっく・あわーず
Edition 11 (2013)
Winners
5 peopleA warm, funny novel about Jimmy Rabbitte returning to the world of The Commitments. Illness, family, and middle age give the story its emotional edge, but the voice stays playful and alive.
Jimmy Rabbitte returns in a funny, poignant middle-aged follow-up.
A memoir that moves through depression, faith, family, and the search for steadiness. Michael Harding writes with openness and lyricism about how love, illness, and everyday life shape the self.
A memoir of depression, love, and the search for steadiness.
A history book that tells Ireland’s story through a hundred objects. Each object opens onto a larger account of politics, culture, daily life, and memory.
Ireland’s history told through one hundred objects.
A debut novel set in a small Irish community, where family ties, local memory, and women’s lives slowly come into focus. Its atmosphere is quiet and rooted in place.
A debut novel of family, memory, and women’s lives in a small town.
A candid memoir of the life and career of Edna O’Brien. It follows her from rural Ireland into literary fame, showing both the exhilaration and cost of that journey.
A candid memoir of a life in letters.